"I'll be damned if I want to have him lecture me about small business and jobs," Wynn said. "Guys like me are job creators and we don't like having a bulls-eye painted on our back."

"Guys like" Wynn include fellow Forbes 400 rich list member Leon Cooperman, the subject of a recent New Yorker story and the "pope" of the anti-Obama movement among rich hedgies, according to fellow fund managers. Cooperman took his criticism public last November with a highly publicized open letter, taking the President to task for anti-capitalist rhetoric.

"You know, the largest and greatest country in the free world put a forty-seven-year-old guy that never worked a day in his life and made him in charge of the free world. Not totally different from taking Adolf Hitler in Germany and making him in charge of Germany because people were economically dissatisfied. Now, Obama’s not Hitler. I don’t even mean to say anything like that. But it is a question that the dissatisfaction of the populace was so great that they were willing to take a chance on an untested individual."

While some Forbes 400 rich listers are taking their Obama-bashing public as the election draws near, others have been airing their dissatisfaction for months, if not years.